Corset.



PATENTED NOV. 20, 1906.

0. H. TURNER.

CORSET.

APPLICATION TILED 00T.31.1906.

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CHARLES H. TURNER, OF BELVIDERE, ILLINOIS.

CORSET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 20, 1906.

Application filed OGtOlJGl 31, 1905. Serial N0- 285,258.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. TURNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Belvidere, in the county of Boone and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Corsets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to corsets, and particularly to the steels and lacing devices used to adjust the same.

The object of the invention is to provide an arrangement which will cause the laces to draw evenly and lay perfectly fiat and in which the adjustment may be easily effected, particularly to produce what is known as the straight-front corset.

The invention is adapted for use with a lace-front corset and also with a lace-back garment.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of the invention applied to a lace-front corset. Fig. 2 is a similar View of a lace-back garment. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Referring specifically to Fig. 1 of the drawings, in which the invention is applied to the front of the garment, 6 and 7 indicate a pair of steels which are provided with the usual stud and loop fasteners, (indicated at 8.) Each of these steels carries a series of clips 9, which are folded to form loops at 10. The steels or busks are embraced between the ends of the clips, where they are fastened by rivets 11. Each clip has a pair of loops 10, between which the plate is cut away to form an opening 12, through which the laces 13 are passed. At 14 are indicated rods which extend lengthwise of the steels through the loops 10. These rods have thereon in the space 12 between the loops 10 sleeves 15, which form rollers to allow the laces to draw and slip evenly and freely throughout the whole length of the steels or busks. The rods are headed at one end, as at 16, and are threaded at the other end to receive nuts 17, whereby they are'drawn tight and held in place.

A pair of outer steels or busks 18 and 19 are sewed or otherwise attached to the fabric 20 of the garment, and these outer steels or busks are similarly provided with loops and rods, as above indicated.

The laces 13 are crossed from one rod to the other and pass through the openings 12 in the clips and may be drawn to the proper adjustment to make the corset fit. The laces work easily over the rollers on the rod, and when tightened or loosened to the proper extent the corset will readily adjust itself throughout the whole length of the steels or busks.

When used on a lace-back corset, the inner or clasp steels or busks 6 and 7 are omitted and the outer pair 18 and 19 used alone, the laces being laced around the rods in a manner similar to that above indicated and with a similar result. The rods 14 are round and made of spring metal, so that they assist in stiffening and strengthening the steel.

A corset with the steels or busks above described will be found to be free from binding or uneven adjustment.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Corset-busks having rods connected thereto and extending along the same, and having roller-sleeves thereon, and laces crossed from one rod to the other and extending over said sleeves.

2. A lacing device for corsets, comprising busks having clips fixed thereto, each clip having projecting loops with a spacetherebetween, rods extending through the loops, and laces crossed between the rods and passed through the spaces.

3. A corset having a pair of inner or clasp busks, and a pair of outer busks attached to the fabric of the corset, said busks having at their adjacent edges rods rigidly connected thereto and extending along beside the same, spaced clips connecting the rods to the busks, each clip having spaced projecting loops through which the rods extend, and laces extending across from one rod to the other, through the spaces between the loops.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHAS. H. TURNER.

Witnesses:

FRED K. DEAN, EDMOND STooKwELL. 

